Coding patterns - coding a method that always throws an exception
Sometimes we have a method that does some business logic and it
always throws a known exception. One example can be if a user tried
to login unsuccessfully, we want to log that information and
always throw a custom exception which the clients catch and handle
accordingly. In such case there is a simple coding pattern that
makes the code look cleaner.
This is an example without the coding pattern applied. See below with
the pattern.
public void handleLoginFailure(String CustomExceptionMessage)
throws CustomException{
//do some logic before throwing the CustomException
throw new CustomException(CustomExceptionMessage);
}
public void testMethod() throws CustomException{
handleLoginFailure("username and password invalid");
}
This is an example with the coding pattern applied. Now someone
reading testMethod() knows that handleLoginFailure() always throws
an exception thus simplyfing the code readability.
public CustomException handleLoginFailure
(String CustomExceptionMessage) {
//do some logic before throwing the CustomException
return new CustomException(CustomExceptionMessage);
}
public void testMethod() throws CustomException{
throw handleLoginFailure("username and password invalid");
}
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